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Schaffelhuber wins second Paralympic gold

Anna Schaffelhuber has won her second gold medal in the Sochi Paralympics, finishing first in the women's super-G. On Saturday, she won gold in the women's downhill.

In the Rosa Khutor alpine center, 21-year-old Schaffelhuber won her second gold medal in the women's super-G, handing Germany its third win overall in this year's Paralympics.

"It is very warm, the slope is very soft - that was the big challenge," Schaffelhuber, who was born a quadruplegic, said after the race. "I reduced my speed a little bit at key stages," she added.

The win follows Schaffelhuber's first gold medal, and Germany's second, of the 2014 Sochi Paralympics - on Saturday, in the women's downhill, sitting category.

Schaffelhuber is one of the great hopes in German winter sports. "Anna will be one of the greats, I'm sure of it," Friedhelm-Julius Beucher, president of the German Paralympic Committee. "She's still very young, there's a lot of scope for development. But she also keeps a cool head," he said.

Fellow German skiers Anna-Lena Forster und Andrea Rothfuss didn't make it across the finish line.

The competition was once again overshadowed by accidents on the slopes - US monoskier Alana Nichols and Stephani Victor had earlier fallen and had to be taken to hospital by helicopter. The extent of their injuries is not yet known.